Constitution
The main weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
What is it made the Central Government too weak?
What is a standard, tradition or and example set called?
What is a precedent?
This state was the main reason why the United States and Mexico were to war.
What is Texas?
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel that changed the way people looked at slavery in the North.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
These laws established by the South after the Civil War limited the freedoms of freed African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
The Great Compromise gives smaller states equal representation in what part of Congress?
What is the Senate?
This U.S. policy warned European countries to stay out of North and South America?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The belief that the United States is destined to go West to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This man led a rebellion that instilled fear in the hearts of slave owners in the South.
Who is Nat Turner?
This amendment gave black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These are the first ten Amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of rights?
This president wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This famous trail led Americans from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Oregon Trail?
The name of the movement to end slavery?
What is Abolition?
This amendment gave all people born in the U.S. citizenship?
What is the 14th Amendment?
How were slaves counted with the 3/5 Compromise?
What is for every 5 slaves, they got credit for 3?
During what war was the song the Star Spangled Banner written?
What is the War of 1812?
This famous duo led an expedition all the way to the West Coast?
Who is Lewis and Clark?
This law caused runaway slaves to be sent back to their masters if they were caught.
What is the Fugitive slave Law?
This document freed slaves in the Confederate States.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
What document is the Law of the land?
What is the Constitution?
Thomas Jefferson bought land that doubled the size of America.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This Native American guided Lewis and Clark on their expedition out West.
Who is Sacagawea?
This term means to leave. Hint: the South did this.
What is secede?
This is the period time after the Civil War where the South was being rebuilt?
What is Reconstruction?